Analyzing Metalpha Technology (NASDAQ:MATH) and Rand Capital (NASDAQ:RAND)

Dividends

Metalpha Technology pays an annual dividend of $0.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Rand Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Rand Capital pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Metalpha Technology and Rand Capital”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Metalpha Technology	$30.86 million	2.29	-$3.68 million	N/A	N/A
Rand Capital	$10.13 million	5.42	$6.53 million	$3.42	5.41

Rand Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Metalpha Technology.

Volatility and Risk

Metalpha Technology has a beta of -0.87, indicating that its stock price is 187% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rand Capital has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Metalpha Technology and Rand Capital’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Metalpha Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A
Rand Capital	154.01%	6.60%	5.14%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

30.5% of Metalpha Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Metalpha Technology shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 68.2% of Rand Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Rand Capital beats Metalpha Technology on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Metalpha Technology

Metalpha Technology Holding Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides wealth management services in Hong Kong. The company offers digital asset-based wealth management services, which include issuing traditional financial and cryptocurrency derivative products to over-the-counter clients, providing crypto derivative market making services, and proprietary trading of digital assets and crypto derivative products; and securities advising and asset management services. It serves institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. The company was formerly known as Dragon Victory International Limited and changed its name to Metalpha Technology Holding Limited in November 2022. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

About Rand Capital

Rand Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in subordinated debt with warrants or preferred equity and venture capital investments. Within private equity, the firm specializing in capital growth and lower middle market investments. Within venture capital, it specializing in early to late-stage private businesses. It does not prefer to invest in real estate sector. It prefers to invest in software, professional services, manufacturing, consumer, healthcare, automotive and public d stocks. It prefers to invest in East or Midwest U.S. operations sectors. It typically invests between $0.75 million and $5 million with initial target size of $1.5 million. It seeks to invest in companies having more than $2 million in revenue or having excess of $1.5 million and up to $5 million in EBITDA. It prefers to be a minority stake and seeks to take a Board seat in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for a period up to five years.